Re: Placenta encapsulation???

I guess I won't. But like I said... It's a one time shot. You either plan to do it or you don't.

But a second time mom can compare her experiences I'd she didn't do it the first time...

Re: Placenta encapsulation???

Posted by Pray4Baby2010

Posted by maybebaby

Posted by MaPetiteLoutre

It's not like you birth the placenta and they put it on the plate and you start chewing on it


I'll gladly report back how the smoothies thing go and what I feel happens as a result afterwards... As I said, mixed into a smoothie you apparently can't taste it.

People actually do basically just that though..sometimes pieces are cut off and the mother swallows it or puts it in her mouth to supposedly help with uterine contraction.

I guess I just don't get it. We as humans have an amazing body where our uterus will contract after delivery, hormones are released on constant basis to stimulate milk production or to combat the blues etc...we have iron supplements available to us as well as every other vitamin out there. Is it really necessary to eat something that has been used as the nutritional AND waste/filtering system for our baby?

Most OB/GYN's will most likely tell their patients that no real value can come of it.

I guess the real thing that bothers me is the marketing ploys behind these things...to turn the placenta into pills, a process is initiated that basically cooks the placenta and the nutrient content would be close to nothing. So women will fork over $300 or more to do this, whereas they'd be better off taking their prenatals.

I was reading a little just out of curiousity and its a dehydration process- not sure if that means it is "cooked" or not

Re: Placenta encapsulation???

Posted by lucky1007

Posted by Pray4Baby2010

Posted by maybebaby

Posted by MaPetiteLoutre

It's not like you birth the placenta and they put it on the plate and you start chewing on it


I'll gladly report back how the smoothies thing go and what I feel happens as a result afterwards... As I said, mixed into a smoothie you apparently can't taste it.

People actually do basically just that though..sometimes pieces are cut off and the mother swallows it or puts it in her mouth to supposedly help with uterine contraction.

I guess I just don't get it. We as humans have an amazing body where our uterus will contract after delivery, hormones are released on constant basis to stimulate milk production or to combat the blues etc...we have iron supplements available to us as well as every other vitamin out there. Is it really necessary to eat something that has been used as the nutritional AND waste/filtering system for our baby?

Most OB/GYN's will most likely tell their patients that no real value can come of it.

I guess the real thing that bothers me is the marketing ploys behind these things...to turn the placenta into pills, a process is initiated that basically cooks the placenta and the nutrient content would be close to nothing. So women will fork over $300 or more to do this, whereas they'd be better off taking their prenatals.

I was reading a little just out of curiousity and its a dehydration process- not sure if that means it is "cooked" or not

yes there's a few ways to do it...it can be dehyrdated (which doesn't cook out the nutrients), or steamed first which does lose some nutritional value.